African american Quote by Ian Astbury

For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz and you…

— Steve Miller

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

— Dusty Hill

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n'…

— David Johansen

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get…

— Gene Simmons

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

— Joe Bonamassa

For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say I'm a…

— Cornel West

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in…

— Angus Young

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen,…

— Ellen Willis

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in…

— PJ Harvey

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

— Brownie McGhee

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

— Steven Tyler

I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments…

— Nancy Wilson